Scientists developing new biomaterials often try to mimic the body's natural proteins, but a chemist shows that simpler polymers -- based on a handful of plastic building blocks -- also work well.

Biomimetic polymers are synthetic materials designed to mimic the structure and function of natural biological polymers such as proteins, DNA, and polysaccharides. These materials leverage the ...

Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. They catalyze reactions, form backbone and muscle and ...